The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-22
MOURNING
The Handsornest Fabrics Used for Black
Toilets This Season,

The Handsornest Fabrics Used for Black
Toilets This Season.
The ~silk-and-wool mixtures, not.
outstanding their great beauty, have
by no means driven the all-wool nate
l1als out OF the market. 1t really seems
as if, with thought of the competition,
these fabrics had determined to show
at their best Among them are also
some new fabrics; noti.eably India
cloth, which looks not unlike camel's-
hair, yet Grapes with all the s~oftness Of
a crepe de Chine. Venetian Grape is
advised for black or complimentary
mourning, where red Grape is not as
sumcd, inasmuch as its crapy look
stamps it as a mourning material.
Mourning cloth leads the list for black
without Grape, and is chosen by the
modistcs for mourning for a parent by
young people, or where mourning is
assumed for Il young sister or brother.
Although reference is made to black
without Grape, it must be thoroughly
understood that it is neverdecp mourn-
ing. English ladies usually provide
themselves with an entire costume Of
black Grape made oven a light quality
OF silk, and this is reserved for house
wear when the occasion requires a GER
tain amount of dress, Courtauld's
Grape is always selected, not only be-
cause it looks well at first. but also
with thought for the future-that il will
cut up well into trimmings, small bon
nets and a hundred and one adjuncts Of
Grape that are the vogue when the yeit
is thrown aside.
Although time and experience are
required to prove it to women, there is
no economy and not one cent is saved
in the buying of cheap black materials.
Indeed, there is more lost, from the I'M
~plcasantness, sure to result, when the
knowledge that ones gown is grow
ing brown or blue in stroaks, that
oncs's Grape has a pulled look, entirely
foreign to its original appearance. or
that the whole suit is simply suggestive
of shabbiness, overwhelms the wearer.
When q lesson of this kind. hard as it
is, has been learned. then women begin
to realize that the best black is tho
cheapest; that the wide material, even
if it does cost Il third more than the
narrow, cuts to better advantage and
saves in quantity, while it makes up in
quality for the difference in price.
Cheap Grape should be boycotted;
from the very beginning a so-called
cheap vail needs continual doing up,
does not hang well, and very quickly
announces to the world at large its
plebeian origin. The old proverb. that
''blood will tell" i not always to be re-
lied upon; but that good dye will tell is
a certainty.
The handsomcst black toilet this soa-
son will be made of lightweight cam
els'-hair. with 4 wrap of a heavier
weight trimmed with black fur, while
the bonnet will be of the camels'-hair,
trimmed with mourning ribbon and 4
black Dlfu. Inns may ne clteu as a SUIT
quite proper for morning wear. and
adapted for wear by a woman
who finds black becoming, and yet who
is not In mourning for any one. Black
is always a thoroughly refined costume;
and for the fine specimens of black ina
it becomes necessary to go to the
manufacturers who make n speciality of
black materials, and who have studied
the best dyes, the best combinations Of
silk and wool, and have gained from
this the ability to achieve the best eff
not only in the appearance of a
but in its wearin" power. and the
ease with which it adaptS itself to Il
figure. and makes lines of grace more
charming than ever before. while it
,haritably lends its own beauty to con-
zeal impcrfections of nature. -Dcm0r-
'sts' Monthly.